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Ljubljana Airport readies for new terminal

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Ljubljana Jože Pučnik Airport will start work on the construction of a new terminal building at the end of 2018 in order to open its doors to the public in time for the 2020 summer season. The airport has begun administrative procedures so as to commence necessary tenders related to the terminal development later this year. Initial construction work will involve the demolition of the old administrative building, which will take place in the fourth quarter, while the construction of the new terminal will be carried out mostly during 2019. The existing passenger terminal, which stretches over 13.000 square metres, will also be partially renovated. The two facilities will be joined to form a single functioning unit.

The entire renovated and expanded terminal complex will cover a total area of 22.000 square metres. As a result, the capacity of the departures area will grow from the existing 500 passengers per hour to 1.280 travellers. New features will include a large duty-free shop, a new premium lounge, as well as an updated food and beverage offering. The airport will also boast a new baggage sorting area, in addition to the existing one, while there will be a total of 22 check-in desks and five security lanes. Furthermore, the baggage claim area will be expanded to fit three carousels. However, the new terminal building will not feature air bridges. Ljubljana Airport's General Manager, Zmago Skobir, previously said that the existing terminal will remain partially in use and will be utilised by low cost and charter carriers in order to provide product differentiation and allow further passenger growth.

Ljubljana Airport is due to publish its passenger figures for last year on Monday. It is expected to have handled almost 1.7 million passengers, making 2017 its busiest on record. Overall, passenger growth is estimated to have stood at 20% compared to the year before. "The increase in traffic stems, above all, from the consolidation of our flight network in 2016 and 2017, resulting in more competitive services that are seeing passengers increasingly choose Ljubljana Airport for direct flights to nearby destinations, but also for services to more remote points that are accessible via major European hubs. A further contribution to growth comes from an increase in both domestic and foreign carrier traffic, the favourable economic climate and Slovenia's growing popularity as a tourist destination", operator Fraport Slovenia said. Adria Airways has so far announced the launch of six new routes from the Slovenian capital this year including Sofia, Bucharest, Hamburg, Geneva, Dubrovnik and Brač.

Apart from the construction of the new terminal building, Ljubljana Airport plans to launch several other projects in 2018. "A slight slowing in traffic growth is expected in the coming year, which cannot be said for the development of the airport. We started the expansion of the existing passenger terminal, the new airport bypass project is nearing completion, and in 2018 we will see the start of several other important projects in the business and logistics zones, among which will probably be a training centre for the Fraport Aviation Academy. The complete overhaul of the airport information system is also continuing. Once completed, this will increase the speed, quality and efficiency of our services", Fraport Slovenia concluded.

LJU had a fantastic performance in 2017 and I am sure by the end of 2019 it might reach 1.85 million.

Yesterday we saw that BEG will get TK widebodies but I wouldn't be surprised if LJU gets some as well from time to time. TK did really well last year and LJU was one of the few ex-YU destinations not to see cuts in the past two, three years.

Next step should be to have Wizz Air add another destination, maybe VIE?

Fraport are maybe a bit slow in their actions, but at least they keep their words. LJU has a bright future indeed.Fraport is also busy with the construction of the 3rd FRA terminal.Also most Greek airports will see a change.Also VAR and BOJ benefited dramatically from Fraport so the same will be applied LJU.

Just some extra info from a friend: all these renders and schematics were done by engineers from the airport. The architecture firm, that won the tender, are drawing interior and such on that plan of logistics, so the final look of the terminal will be some what different (there was one render that was published few months ago, but they had to take it down as per request from the airport. Logical). All plans have to be approved and finished by May 2018.

This is good news but I think they are late in the game. If they built the new terminal as planned with 31,200 sqm and had it completed by 2015, they could have converted the current terminal for low cost use and capitalized on the fact that Zagreb is not that low cost friendly. Could have been a win in attracting Croats to fly from Ljubljana but also make yourself more competitive against ZAG.

Not something really exciting. Product of wellknown SLO/German rationalism with not a well developped sense for aesthetics.The most I miss are additional jetbridge gates, they should have easily added another 2 or 3.

More progressivity would not harm them. In terms of public transportation infrastrcture they are amoung the lower ranked in the EU. Rail network dates back to Austro Hungaro times. Infarstructure is crucial for progress and prosperity. If Swiss would be like Slovenians we definitely wouldnt have 3 Gotthard tunnels today

I know it isn't directly corelated to the new terminal, but it is indeed needed. Flew this week to Amsterdam and back with Transavia, didn't see any free seat on the way there and only two free seats on the way back. The vonnection seems to be a great success!

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